Quotes with theory

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  • Richard P. Feynman It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.
    Richard P. Feynman
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel price winner (1918 - 1988)
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  • Arthur Eddington It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.
    Arthur Eddington
    English astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882 - 1944)
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  • Cornelia Otis Skinner It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
    Cornelia Otis Skinner
    American actress and author (1899 - 1979)
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  • Albert Einstein It is theory that decides what can be observed.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Anthony Trollope Life is so unlike theory.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Aleister Crowley Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Beth Ditto My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Andrei Sakharov My present work concerns the problems connected with the theory of elementary particles, the theory of gravitation and cosmology and I shall be glad if I can manage to make some contribution to these important branches of science.
    Andrei Sakharov
    Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and activist (1921 - 1989)
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  • Blythe Danner My theory in anything you do is to keep exploring, keep digging deeper to find new stuff.
    Blythe Danner
    American actress (1943 - )
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  • Boman Irani My theory is children don't do what you tell them to do, they do what you do. You have to always do the right thing because they follow you.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Bernard Sahlins My theory is that everything an actor does, from the way he looks at his watch to the way he moves across the stage, is in the service of advancing a story, and in that sense, it's all writing. In that sense we, while acting, write.
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  • Billy Bragg My theory is this; I'm not a political songwriter. I'm an honest songwriter.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Balthazar Getty My theory is, independent movies only work if you're willing to push the material and do something different.
    Balthazar Getty
    American actor and musician (1975 - )
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  • Steven Wright My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
    Steven Wright
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer (1955 - )
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  • Erma Bombeck My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
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  • A. E. van Vogt My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. V, TRANSFORMATION, p. 203
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • B. F. Skinner No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • André Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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